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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Chemistry-informed molecular graph as reaction descriptor for machine-learned retrosynthesis planning.

Baicheng Zhang, Xiaolong Zhang, Wenjie Du, Zhaokun Song, Guozhen Zhang, Guoqing Zhang, Yang Wang, Xin Chen, Jun Jiang, Yi Luo

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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Baicheng ZhangSchool of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Xiaolong ZhangSchool of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Wenjie DuSchool of Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Zhaokun SongHefei JiShu Quantum Technology Co. Ltd., Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Guozhen ZhangSchool of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0125-9666
Guoqing ZhangSchool of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Yang WangSchool of Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
Xin ChenGusu Laboratory of Materials, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China.
Jun JiangSchool of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6116-5605
Yi LuoSchool of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infusing "chemical wisdom" should improve the data-driven approaches that rely exclusively on historical synthetic data for automatic retrosynthesis planning. For this purpose, we designed a chemistry-informed molecular graph (CIMG) to describe chemical reactions. A collection of key information that is most relevant to chemical reactions is integrated in CIMG:NMR chemical shifts as vertex features, bond dissociation energies as edge features, and solvent/catalyst information as global features. For any given compound as a target, a product CIMG is generated and exploited by a graph neural network (GNN) model to choose reaction template(s) leading to this product. A reactant CIMG is then inferred and used in two GNN models to select appropriate catalyst and solvent, respectively. Finally, a fourth GNN model compares the two CIMG descriptors to check the plausibility of the proposed reaction. A reaction vector is obtained for every molecule in training these models. The chemical wisdom of reaction propensity contained in the pretrained reaction vectors is exploited to autocategorize molecules/reactions and to accelerate Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) for multistep retrosynthesis planning. Full synthetic routes with recommended catalysts/solvents are predicted efficiently using this CIMG-based approach.

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Machine LearningNeural Networks, ComputerCatalysisChemistry Techniques, SyntheticMonte Carlo MethodSolventsSolventschemistry-informed molecular graphgraph neural networkMonte Carlo tree searchretrosynthesis planning

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PMID36191228
PMCPMC9564830

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